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👇🏻‼️”A lot of people need to be educated on #Tuberculosis… that education needs to include awareness that if a patient comes in with a cough, and they’ve ruled out pneumonia, other respiratory illnesses, testing for TB, which can affect any organ, would be prudent.“

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🚨”It's a multi-faceted problem that extends into all aspects of medicine and really, human life… The best way to avoid a resistant infection is to avoid infection altogether, which means higher levels of immunisation, water sanitation and hygiene are needed, he adds.”

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🧨⚠️🌊”Losing ocean data means less information about high-stakes impacts like ocean heatwaves that can wipe out fish populations, kill coral reefs and cause toxic algal blooms that threaten fisheries and other marine life… The curtailing of those measurements (rising sea levels) would be disastrous”

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“Tuberculosis has long suffered a PR problem… We are looking at a world whereby, two years from now, 2 million people will die of #tuberculosis, instead of 1.25 million… This is getting worse, not better, and I really hate it when we have the ability to make something better and we let it get worse”

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Worth to read the comments. Yes, nurses are heroes 🦸‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏽‍♂️ Nurses deserve more Nurses rock ✊🏼 🙌🏼

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‼️”The number of NIH grants awarded so far this year is about 6800 fewer than were awarded at this time last year — a difference of nearly $2 billion… The Trump administration has also been canceling NIH grants that were previously approved. The HHS has reported the termination of 714 NIH grants”

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👇🏻”Fund more basic research. Back more science. Put your money into the beginning of the next Breakthrough Prizes instead of at the end. And while you’re at it, make sure that work you fund is open source, peer-reviewed, well-designed and ethical, not subject to anti-DEI lunacy, undue influence.”

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‼️🚨”Even in modern times infectious disease can still take a deadly toll, and without vaccinations, those numbers would be far worse. It’s just not a risk worth taking. “Healthy people die everyday from infectious diseases,”

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‼️”Efficiency is not being enhanced, nor is waste being eliminated. (If anything, it’s increasing.) American interests are not being protected. And the quest to cure diseases or improve human health is not being advanced.“

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🤦🏻‍♀️👇🏻”The changes to the process — which will allow DOGE to review and approve proposed grant opportunities across the federal government — threaten to further delay or even halt billions of dollars that agencies usually make in federal awards, the people said.”

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Happy National Pet Day!🐶🐈‍⬛🐢 Pets come🎁 in different shapes to our lives. They make it better, fun, interesting, warmer💗. Some had to go🪽 after delivering so much unconditional love🥹😘 but they stay in our memories. #PetsAreFamily #Adopt #dogs #cats

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Unexpected Surprise 😳 4yrs ago, Annie Lennox (big fan🙋🏻‍♀️) was cruelly attacked for supporting #COVID #vaccines. I sent a support response👇🏻(Insta). I worked during COVID delivering #TB 💊 & managing research projects. Annie responded. YES!, 4yrs later! ☺️🥰🤗 I 🩵 it, I need it, NOW 🎧🎶The Hurting Time🥹

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🚨”Societies are healthy when they work together to protect the collective, not when they individualize health and purposely push the weakest toward harm and death… Eliminating vaccines, ignoring disease mitigation, cutting infectious disease research… will bring more of the same.”

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I love💓 this picture. I took it 📸 years ago. Slowest ride🚤 at the fair 🎡🎟️. They loved it. ⏳🗓️ Now my daughter is learning to drive. Kind of different feelings when your teenager 👩🏻 is behind the steering wheel. 😳😱😰🫣😯🫩😬😲😬😂🥹🥰 Parenting is not easy‼️🪧 Love them, deeply, but parenting is a wild ride 🎢

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😣🥺😞No Words💔 “It wouldn’t just gut it. It would shut it down” Scientifically, he adds, obliterating OAR would send the United States back to the 1950s—all because the Trump administration doesn’t like the answers to scientific questions NOAA has been studying for a half-century, according to McLean"

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“Trump's beautiful-glorious-tariff ramblings had to be some sort of bit, a routine for the cameras and for the rubes, that no one could actually be so stupid as to believe this stuff.Well, guess what. Someone is, and someone does, and this country elected him President. God help us” Yes, help us😣☹️👇🏻

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☘️🐒🇨🇴 “the Awá taught me that if we are attentive, if we learn from wise people like them, we can understand how other beings speak to us, guide us, and protect us.”

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⚠️💣🧨”As stocks gyrate in response to Trump’s… tariffs, the world is understandably focused on the immediate chaos affecting the global economy. Yet over the past few months a number of signals have pointed to a far more profound disruption on the horizon: the growing economic cost of climate change”

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‼️🎥👇🏻”The numbers continue to climb every time is reported… This virus (Measles/Rubeola) which is the most highly transmissible virus agent we know about it, it is ripping like a hurricane over warm Caribbean waters.” @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social youtu.be/5Tb9ROmtxNU

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😣😖😤😠😡 “The cancellations of projects, despite scientists scoring them highly during review, tears the long-standing fabric of the government’s contract to pursue medical research that seeks to better the healthspan and lifespan for all Americans.”

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🚨”If we are talking about what is best for the USA, then that means addressing #tuberculosis …maintaining global cooperation, supporting programmes in places… investing in research & development” The fate of tuberculosis programmes without USAID-The Lancet Microbe www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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“Projections indicate that if foreign aid is not restored by the end of 2025, an additional 62000 people could die from #tuberculosis globally… The solutions are within our reach: strengthening regional collaboration, securing sustainable funding, accelerating innovation, and prioritising community”

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"Count your blessings, Lizzie. If he liked you, you'd have to talk to him." Pride & Prejudice. Well, He🐶 likes Me🙋🏻‍♀️ One of my blessings: During stressful times, warm bubble bath🛀 … and with a spectator😏🥰

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‼️”it is unclear what has been removed or modified. Due to the rapid changes and lack of transparency, the level of tampering is not yet understood and it is unclear whether errors (purposeful or not) are now present” 👇🏻🔗resource includes the information & data prior to 20-JAN-2025 in the CDC website

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“The pain isn't confined to elite institutions on the East and West coasts, the researchers said… I don't think people have a sense of the extent to which the NIH funding is embedded in communities, big cities, regional hubs, small towns all across the US” Joshua Weitz from the Universityof Maryland

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🐀”Ronin is one of more than 100 rats trained by Apopo @herorats.bsky.social to detect the scent of the explosive chemicals & point landmines out to their handlers. The rats are highly versatile and have also been trained to detect #tuberculosis helping to prevent the spread of Infectious Diseases.”

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Global Health Justice Week: “Until every person with #Tuberculosis can access the care they deserve, this fight isn’t over. Justice demands urgent action. Act now to urge Congress to reverse the Trump Administration’s cuts to global TB programs—email your representative today.”👇🏻 #TBHillDay 👏🏼👏🏼✊🏼

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"TB remains a critical public health concern in low-income countries and diagnosis using a cheap, simple test like we've developed is needed not only to treat patients with #Tuberculosis but prevent further spread of the disease," said senior author Tony Hu, Ph.D.

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‼️”Clearly, if we decline to nurture science, the lives of future Americans will be shorter, sicker and poorer. Science may not be the only thing that makes the US great, but it is surely a cornerstone of American exceptionalism, and it is being destroyed by this government.”

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“The NIH’s efforts to shut down research that so much as references LGBTQ people or racial minorities is a direct attack on public health… By censoring studies that include these populations, they are also undermining critical research on cancer, #HIV, and Alzheimer’s — diseases that affect us all.”

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"When countries fail to detect #Tuberculosis in high-risk populations, such as incarcerated people, the risk of transmission increases, both within prisons and to the wider community when people are released from prison."

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‼️” #vaccines lead to the disappearance of a variety of infectious diseases, only to have some, measles and pertussis, begin to re-emerge because of decisions not to have children vaccinated. These pathogens can kill… Protect yourself and the ones you love; get recommended vaccines.”

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“David developed the Perturbation Hypothesis, informing issues from trophy hunting to Human Wildlife Conflict, and UK policy on bovine #tuberculosis. Nowadays his global research on felids… focuses on landscape-scale decision-support at the interface of conservation and development.”

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“When we know about suffering, when we are proximal to it, we are capable of extraordinary generosity. We can do and be so much for each other — but only when we see one another in our full humanity, not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world." #Tuberculosis

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‼️”what is expected to be the largest #tuberculosis related congressional lobbying event in 🇺🇸history. The effort, coordinated by the grassroots organization TB Fighters in collaboration with PIH and PIH Engage, involves over 200 meetings with congressional offices.” www.thejustice.org/article/2025...

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😩😣😔”The moves are the latest in a rapidly escalating campaign against the nation’s elite universities that has resulted in more than $3.3 billion in federal funds suspended or canceled. The other schools that have had funds frozen include Brown, Columbia, Harvard, Penn and Princeton.”

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